SAUNTER in a Sentence

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39 example sentences for SAUNTER, such as:

1. She sauntered onto the set, looking serenely confident.
2. This little affair being over, Simon sauntered up again to his property.
3. Ambrosch shrugged his shoulders and sauntered down the hill toward the stable.
4. As we saunter through the park, we stop frequently to admire the spring flowers.
5. They used to saunter, arm in arm, up and down the alleys and walks of the garden.

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 Meanings and Examples of SAUNTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
saunter
 v.  stroll slowly; walk at a leisurely pace
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  She began to saunter about the room, examining the bookshelves between the puffs of her cigarette-smoke.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
2  They used to saunter, arm in arm, up and down the alleys and walks of the garden.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Mr. Spenlow and I falling into this conversation, prolonged it and our saunter to and fro, until we diverged into general topics.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
4  The pace at which they went, was such a very lazy, ill-looking saunter, that Oliver soon began to think his companions were going to deceive the old gentleman, by not going to work at all.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds nearly as much as with events.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
6  He bowed and sauntered off, leaving her with her bosom heaving with impotent rage and indignation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  "Yas'm," said Prissy and, turning, sauntered down the walk at snail's gait.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  Scarlett had never liked Hilton any more than she liked their own overseer Jonas Wilkerson, and she liked him even less now, as he sauntered forward and greeted her like an equal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  He sauntered into the living-room and his glance passed from her drenched hat to her smeared rubbers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  Ambrosch shrugged his shoulders and sauntered down the hill toward the stable.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
11  Turning, with an indifferent air, he sauntered up to the advertisement, and read it over.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  This little affair being over, Simon sauntered up again to his property.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  At this moment, Legree sauntered up to the door of the shed, looked in, with a dogged air of affected carelessness, and turned away.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomsoever he knew.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
15  With Jordan's slender golden arm resting in mine we descended the steps and sauntered about the garden.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  As we saunter through the park, we stop frequently to admire the spring flowers.
2  She sauntered onto the set, looking serenely confident.
3  It was the "Rockaway Beach Guy," as some residents know the man with the neon green beard who regularly saunters across the Boardwalk there.